Interactive Media Community Group

Media-device Timing Community Group,

Hello. I am pleased to share that a new Community Group has been proposed: the Interactive Media Community Group.

The Interactive Media Community Group is interested in all forms of interactive media, e.g., branching narratives, digital gamebooks, interactive films, and serious games. This group considers and discusses how standardization can support all forms of interactive media. This group may work on a number of deliverables, reports, and specifications.

One of the technologies that the IMCG shall work on is, tentatively, called Advanced Media Processing Language (AMPL).

A rough-draft sketch:

<ampl version="0.1">
  <body>
    <threads>
      <thread name="default">
        <sequence>
          <video src="branch1.webm" />
          <switch src="menu.cml" script="choice.js" onswitch="f1">
            <case value="1">
              <video src="branch2.webm" />
            </case>
            <case value="2">
              <video src="branch3.webm" />
            </case>
            <case value="undefined" default="true">
              <video src="branch4.webm" />
            </case>
          </switch>
          <video src="branch5.webm" />
        </sequence>
      </thread>
    </threads>
  </body>
</ampl>

As you can see, AMPL and timing, including multi-device timing, have some overlap. The AMPL resource could, for example, be processed on a server which generates one or more media streams while synchronizing to a client-side HTML-based user interface. I am optimistic about opportunities for collaboration between our groups.

If you have a moment, please consider supporting the creation of the new group: https://www.w3.org/community/#support . After the proposed Community Group receives five votes in support of its creation, I invite you to also consider joining the group. Thank you.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com

Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2022 18:48:40 UTC